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Item Number: 127183
Title: Etrusques. Un hymne ŕ la vie
Author: Moretti Sgubini, Anna Maria ; Francesca Boitani
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ISBN: 9782070142347
Description: Paris: Gallimard, 2013. 29cm., pbk., 288pp., 224 illus., most in color. Exhibition held at Musee Maillol, Paris. French text. Summary: The exhibition proposes an interpretation focused on the Etruscans’ way of life through the evolution of their habitat: primitive ninth-century BCE huts to patrician houses with their refined interiors. The sumptuous world of princes and the proliferation of “city-states” during the apogee of the seventh and sixth centuries BCE will be examined through art, economy, customs and costumes, and expressions of the sacred. A selection of objects, artworks and architecture trace the long history of ancient Etruria, from the origins of cities at the meeting with Mediterranean civilizations to the birth of writing: refined gold and silver jewellery which belonged to the Etruscan aristocracy – clasps, earrings, brooches, necklaces enriched with stones and amber – richly decorated bronze vessels destined, as were the painted ceramics, for banquets with eminent people. Mythological figures that adorned the temples; stunning representations of ancestors, like those of the palace at Murlo or funerary monuments –as luxurious inside as outside. These objects illustrate each of the major Etruscan cities from which they come, delivering to us their special characteristics and enlightening us on the remarkable vibrancy of this civilization: masterpieces from master coroplastes* of the school of Veii, numerous productions from the workshops of Cerveteri, extraordinary examples of painting from Tarquinia, impressive stone sculptures from Vulci, terracottas from the temples of Orvieto and artistic expressions from Chiusi, Populonia, Perugia and Volterra. Finally, this climactic period was succeeded by long years of turmoil, the conquest of their territories by the Romans, until their annihilation. This exhibition will commemorate the disappearance of a people who left behind a fascinating cultural heritage, which we can access only partially, but which had a profound influence on Rome.

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